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A young penitent waits to start the procession of the Santo Entierro brotherhood during Holy Week in Santiago de Compostela, northern Spain. Hundreds of Easter processions take place in Spain during Holy Week, drawing thousands of visitors. Miguel Vidal/Reuters

Russian communist supporters are reflected in a portrait of the Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin as they stand in a queue in Red Square, Moscow, to visit the Mausoleum to mark the 141st anniversary of Lenin's birth. Mikhail Metzel/AP

Kwykyti, from the Kayapo tribe, is examined during the second day of a medical expedition of the Expedicionarios da Saude (Brazilian Health Expeditions) in Kikretum community in Sao Felix, northern Brazil. Twice a year doctors with the organization build a mobile hospital to provide care for indigenous tribes and residents from different parts of the Amazonian Rainforest. Ricardo Moraes/Reuters

Ahmed, a rebel fighter, guards the front line along the western entrance gate to Ajdabiyah, Libya. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters

Participants dressed as Roman soldiers prepare to take part in a Good Friday procession in the village of Zebbug, outside Valletta, Malta. Several Easter processions take place all over the Maltese islands during Holy Week, drawing large numbers of visitors. Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters

Horseback riders are seen in the heavy fog at Holy Island, Berwick Upon Tweed, England. Scott Heppell/AP

Orthodox Christians hold crosses as they walk along Via Dolorosa during a Good Friday procession in Jerusalem's Old City. Christians retraced the route Jesus Christ took along Via Dolorosa to his crucifixion in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Baz Ratner/Reuters

Syrian protesters stamp on a poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a demonstration demanding his ouster in front of the Syrian embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus. Petros Karadjias/AP

A Libyan boy attends Friday prayers near the court house in Benghazi, Libya. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters

Gypsies wait on a bus during the evacuation of Gypsies from the village of Gyongyospata, eastern Hungary. Roma leaders say they have evacuated 277 women and children from the village because a far-right vigilante group is setting up a training camp near their homes. Bela Szandelszky/AP

A Libyan child peers into the window of a tent in the UAE. Red Crescent refugee camp at the Tunisian village of Dhuheiba. In recent weeks, more than 10,000 Libyans from the border region have crossed into Tunisia, and 1,200 found shelter in this tent camp a few miles from the border. Pier Paolo Cito/AP

A beachgoer sunbathes during the opening day at Berlin's Wannsee lido. Tobias Schwarz/Reuters

A cycle rickshaw puller speaks on a mobile phone in front of Trinamool Congress party office in Kolkata, India. The wall has a painting of India's Railways Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee. Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

Children watch penitents hanging on wooden crosses during Good Friday crucifixion rites in Cutud, San Fernando city, Pampanga province in northern Philippines. Nearly two dozen Filipinos were nailed to crosses to re-enact the passion of Jesus Christ in what they see as an extreme display of devotion but which the Roman Catholic church criticizes as a distortion of the Easter message. Erik de Castro/Reuters

Face masks of Britain's Prince William and his fiancee, Kate Middleton, are loaded into boxes for shipping at a production plant in Southam, central England. More than 120,000 of the masks have been sold worldwide with Mask-arade company staff working around the clock to complete orders before the Royal Wedding on April 29. Martin Cleaver/AP

Iranian students from universities in Qazvin pray during a three-day sit-in demonstration outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran to protest against Saudi Arabia's support of Bahraini leaders during the suppression of Bahrain's recent anti-government protests. Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters

Japanese Emperor Akihito, (c.), and Empress Michiko tour Otsu fishing port which was heavily damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki prefecture, northeastern Japan. Itsuo Inouye/AP

Baby rabbits are offered for sale at a farming supply store in Omaha, Neb. Nati Harnik/AP

Britain's general elections used to be straightforward: a predominantly two-horse race between Labour or Conservative governments, left vs. right, red against blue. But as electioneering gets under way for May 7 polls, it's clear the vote has implications for British politics that extend well beyond whoever comes out on top.